Tom Pittman's Biographical Information

1966 BA Math UC Berkeley;
1985 PhD InfoSci* UofCalif SantaCruz;
  * Note: Computer&Information SCIENCE at UCSC should not be confused with "Info SYSTEMS" at lesser institutions

1976 Implemented Tiny Basic (6800/6502/1802/Z8)
1977-1999 IEEE MSC: first draft editor 754, chair 694/695...
1982 Implemented "Grand Slam Tennis" video game for Emerson Arcadia 2001 console
1985-1988 Asst Prof CompSci, Kansas State U, mostly teaching Compiler Design
1988 Implemented CompileIt! (HyperTalk compiler), sold by Royal Software 1-800-888-7667
1992 (w/J.Peters) The Art of Compiler Design Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-048190-4
    Additional information, with Downloads
1995 Implemented PowerFPU (floating point emulator), sold by John Neil & Assoc.
1996-2002 Implemented machine translation system BibleTrans on MacOS
    Stanford ee380 seminar, View video
    Paper presented at Bible Translation 2001
2002-2004 Assoc.Prof.Computer & Info Science, SouthWest Baptist University
    (List of Courses Taught)
2003-2004 Implemented Bio-Informatics software for genetic screening, GeneScreen
2005-2008 Ported BibleTrans project to PC
2004+ Implementing open-source Mac-like OS to replace the outstanding product Apple killed
2009+ Implementing a database translation tool, 4th Dimension -> C++

See: employment history notes
 

Contact Info:

Tom Pittman (email)
Temporary address, until I relocate for a job:
P.O.Box 480
Bolivar, MO 65613
417-777-2492

Somewhat more permanent address:
P.O.Box 6539
San Jose, CA 95150

Rev.  2010 June 21